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Lost Album
$18.99

The Burning Wall: Dissent and Opposition Behind the Berlin Wall [VHS]
$34.95
This extremely comprehensive documentary covers dissidents from the East German regime from their resistance to the Nazis through the post-unification trials of Politburo members. While the stories of key dissenters like Robert Havemann are highlighted, this nearly two-hour documentary provides a history of the rise and fall of the German Democratic Republic and the ideology of the regime. It is packed full of original historical footage, including that of post-war cities in ruin, escapes through the pre-Berlin Wall barbed-wire fence, and the famous anti-regime demonstrations in Leipzig. The documentary contains very rare footage of Young Pioneer and Frei Deutscher Jugend rallies, People's Assembly meetings, and the Stasi's own film of dissidents. Especially well done is the sequence interspersing 1989 film of Gorbachev, Honecker and assembled communists singing "Die Internationale" with footage of massive pro-freedom demonstrations in the streets. I especially enjoyed the present-day interviews with dissidents, Stasi officers, bureaucrats, and churchmen.

Even if you already know a lot about East Germany, this documentary enlightens. You can read about those FDJ rallies, but there is nothing like seeing the comrades gathered en masse giving over-the head salutes. You can read about the Stasi, but there is nothing like hearing them explain themselves, or viewing the secret films they made. And this is the first time I've seen footage of Hohenschoenhausen, the Stasi interrogation prison in East Berlin. The dissidents' stories, told in their own words, are moving.

If you enjoy this documentary -- and I am sure you will -- you may want to invest in CNN's 8-tape video history of the Cold War. "Stasiland," by Anna Funder, is an excellent and entertaining book about dissidents in the GDR. For more on the Stasi, read John Koehler's thorough treatment of the agency, "Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police," or an interesting but biased account, "Man Without a Face," by Markus Wolf, head of the Stasi's foreign service.

Saturn in Opposition
$27.99
I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that Ferzan ���zpetek is the most gifted filmmaker in the world today, and Saturn in Opposition is his best film so far. I've watched it at least a dozen times, and it still reveals some new delight to me each time. It's a treasure, a work of such astonishing beauty on so many levels, so deeply satisfying and so thoroughly entertaining, that I'm reluctant to write about it for fear I won't do it justice.

I can't think of any way anything about this movie could be improved. It has raised the bar so high I can't see past it. The brilliant screenplay, the flawless performance by every person in the cast, the breathtaking cinematography that caresses everything the camera sees, the music that never intrudes but always enriches and deepens the story, the surprising flashes of wry humor in what is a very serious and touching work, the marvelous way Lorenzo's inner monologue wraps itself lovingly around the whole film--just the way this movie FEELS, the indescribable way it makes ME feel when I'm watching it, or just remembering it--everything about Saturn in Opposition is simply perfect.

The only movies I can even compare it to are others by ���zpetec himself: His Secret Life, Facing Windows, and Sacred Heart. Each of those movies is a treasure in itself, better than anything else out there, but while each one of them shares many of Saturn in Opposition's remarkable achievements, none of them quite reaches its level of perfection. Every scene, every frame, every sound, every second of its 105 minutes is just The Best. The best it could be, and the best there is, anywhere.

I know I've been gushing, I know I've violated another reviewer's injunction against "aggrandizing" this movie, but I'm only telling the truth about my experience of it as clearly and as honestly as I can. If anybody else likes it a fraction as much as I do, I'll celebrate that with them. If not, I can't help but love it anyway.